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Antiques Roadshow's jug gaffe vexed me – if only it had been the UK showhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/may/12/antiques-roadshows-jug-picasso-bbc
<p>The US spinoff’s mistaken valuation shows up what’s wrong with the BBC flagship. Where once the Beeb encouraged art for its own sake, here profit is king</p><p>I have to confess to sheer delight at the mistake made by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/11/antiques-roadshow-expert-mistake-school-art-project">a hapless Antiques Roadshow “expert”</a>. Examining a comically primitivist pot brought in for valuation on the popular and venerable television show, appraiser Stephen L Fletcher got quite excited. He identified it as a daring early modernist work from the 19th century. He even discerned “a little bit of, like, <a href="http://www.christies.com/features/Collecting-Picasso-Ceramics-7312-1.aspx">Pablo Picasso</a> going on here”.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/11/antiques-roadshow-expert-mistake-school-art-project">Antiques Roadshow expert mistakenly values school art project at $50,000</a> </p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2016/may/04/attenborough-90-wildlife-legend-top-10-tv-moments">David Attenborough at 90: a TV legend’s top 10 moments</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/may/12/antiques-roadshows-jug-picasso-bbc">Continue reading...</a>Art and designArtCultureTelevision & radioFactual TVTelevisionDavid AttenboroughBBCUS newsUK newsPablo PicassoThu, 12 May 2016 14:39:36 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/may/12/antiques-roadshows-jug-picasso-bbcPhotograph: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Ala/Alamy Stock PhotoPhotograph: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Ala/Alamy Stock PhotoJonathan Jones2016-05-12T14:39:36Z2011 showed us new ways of seeinghttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/25/2011-new-ways-of-seeing
The sense of new images hitting our eyes from everywhere is one of the most remarkable aspects of 2011<p>Reasons to be cheerful in 2011? Let's see.</p><p>It was a year when eyes opened a bit wider, when <a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html" title="">images from Earth and space and the enigmatic microverse of quantum physics</a> expanded our field of vision – and the spread of new means of communication made those images more accessible and shareable than ever before.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/25/2011-new-ways-of-seeing">Continue reading...</a>CultureArt and designArtDavid AttenboroughArab and Middle East unrestCernSpaceScienceWorld newsSun, 25 Dec 2011 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/25/2011-new-ways-of-seeingPhotograph: Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty ImagesExpanded vision … the simulation of a Higgs boson decaying into four muons. Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty ImagesPhotograph: Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty ImagesExpanded vision … the simulation of a Higgs boson decaying into four muons. Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty ImagesJonathan Jones2011-12-25T09:00:00ZBeauty and the beast: Frozen Planet does not deserve a tabloid maulinghttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/14/frozen-planet-tabloid-mauling-bbc
The press has attacked the BBC documentary over its use of zoo footage. But the Beeb has shown us the beauty in the world in a way that puts the ugly side of tabloid journalism to shame<p>It seems like only yesterday that I was calling for positive images of journalists. But nothing has ever made me as angry with the press as recent <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/13/frozen-planet-bbc-leveson" title="">attacks on the BBC documentary Frozen Planet</a>.</p><p>I can see the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/13/james-murdoch-phone-hacking-email" title="">horror of the hacking scandal and the revelations it is unleashing at the Leveson inquiry</a>, of course. But I love to see beauty revealed in the world, and that is what Frozen Planet achieved. I find <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2073829/Frozen-Planet-Even-national-treasures-fib-viewers.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" title="">some newspapers' attempts to undermine this televisual masterpiece and its narrator David Attenborough </a>more repulsive than I can say.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/14/frozen-planet-tabloid-mauling-bbc">Continue reading...</a>Art and designCultureDavid AttenboroughBBCDocumentaryTelevisionWildlifeNewspapers & magazinesScience and nature TVWed, 14 Dec 2011 16:03:52 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/dec/14/frozen-planet-tabloid-mauling-bbcPhotograph: BBCWhat a wonderful world ... David Attenborough with a polar bear in the BBC's Frozen Planet documentary. Photograph: BBCPhotograph: BBCWhat a wonderful world ... David Attenborough with a polar bear in the BBC's Frozen Planet documentary. Photograph: BBCJonathan Jones2011-12-14T16:03:52ZAttenborough and the art of naturehttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/apr/11/attenboroughandtheartofna
Art-loving scientist David Attenborough has co-curated an exhibition of fascinating early images of animals, showing that nature is the greatest subject<p><br>Amazing Rare Thing: David Attenborough sits among natural works selected from the Royal Collection. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/mar/03/television.wildlife">David Attenborough</a> was one of the people who made me interested in art. Maybe this sounds odd. The BBC's most famous writer and presenter of nature documentaries is a specialist in science, after all. He has told the anecdote that when, as the first controller of BBC2, he commissioned Lord Clark's epic television art history of Europe "<a href="http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/bbcdvd1607">Civilisation</a>", the head of science programmes at the new channel came in and asked how he could lavish money and prestige on the arts when he himself was a scientist.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/apr/11/attenboroughandtheartofna">Continue reading...</a>ArtExhibitionsArt and designCultureDavid AttenboroughFri, 11 Apr 2008 12:15:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/apr/11/attenboroughandtheartofnaJonathan Jones2008-04-11T12:15:00Z